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Pro Wrestling Great Buff Bagwell underwent an operation to get his right leg amputated over his right knee, wrote his friend Steve Stasiak on social media on Friday.
Bagwell, whose real name is Marcus Bagwell, due to complications from injuries he suffered in a car accident by 2020, Stasiak wrote on Facebook. Stasiak said the damage was never fully healed.
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BUFF BAGWELL IN ACTION UNDER WWA WRESTLING “INCCESSION” FIGHT NIGHT HELD AT SYDNEY SUPERDOME, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA. (Chris McGrath/Allsport)
“I’ve known Buff for a long time. I’ve seen him in the limelight, I’ve seen him behind the scenes and I’ve seen him fight through things most people never even hear about. This … This is hard,” Stasiak’s post read. “For him. For anyone who knows and loves him.
“The damage from his accident in 2020 was never fully healed. He gave it all he had to avoid this result – but that fight led him here. And is now beginning a whole new kind of fight.
“Buff was one of the brightest stars in a wild era in wrestling. He made you look. He made you care. But that’s the one he is as a person – lost the lights, past the persona – which I hope people think of today.”
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Pro Wrestling World offered their thoughts and prayers for Bagwell on social media when words reached X that he had had the operation.
Bagwell, 55, competed in Wrestling in the World Cup (WCW) from 1991 to 2001 and then briefly in WWE after WWE bought his rival North American promotion. He also competed for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling and others.
Buff Bagwell and his girls after winning a match under Wwa Wrestling “Inception” Fight Night held at Sydney Superdome, Sydney, Australia. (Chris McGrath/Allsport)
He was a five-time WCW tag-team champion and was ranked No. 66 in Pro Wrestling Illustrated’s Top 500 Wrestlers from 1999.
